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Managing your team
Discover the skills that make for successful team management.
Business insurance: the basics
Details of the different types of insurance for businesses and finding a broker.
Minimise the impact of import delivery problems
Controlling the risk of damaged, delayed or incomplete deliveries.
How to make a commitment to being a sustainable business
A credible strategy for sustainable development reflects your business values and can attract top-level support
Top tips for saving water in your business
Tips on how to engage your business in saving water and practical tips for minimising water use
Set environmental targets to increase profits
Create an action plan and targets to achieve cost cuts identified by environmental management accounting
Environmental management accounting and the role of accountants
Environmental management accounting helps to identify and analyse the environmental costs of a business
Benefits of health and safety management systems
Management systems help control risk, reduce costs and improve your reputation, other benefits include increased morale and possible lower insurance premiums.
Identify environmental costs
How to use financial data and evidence from managers to identify environmental costs for your business.
Skills and training for company directors
Extra training that may be needed to fulfil the duties of a company director.
Leadership skills for business owners and directors
Skills that directors and business owners need to develop to be effective leaders.
Strategy skills for business owners and directors
How strategy can help your business, and how to use SWOT and gap analyses to determine business strategy.
Cost of living: Support and advice for small businesses
Sources of support and funding to help Northern Ireland businesses.
Using a sales agent
Advice on using an outside agency to sell your products and services, and the legal issues this can raise.
Resource efficiency support for your hotel
Where you can get help, support and advice to improve resource efficiency in your hotel including Invest NI, the Carbon Trust and Love Food, Hate Waste
Types of director, their duties and employment status
Detailing the different types of company directors, their duties and employment status
Choosing a director
Check that directors you plan to appoint have the right skills and expertise
Appointing and paying company directors
Dealing with company directorial appointments and deciding on how to pay them
How to recruit directors
How to find and recruit company directors
Effectively manage your company directors
Ensuring your directors perform to the best of their ability by using inductions, appraisals and training courses